Management Teams

Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker co-founded the Mozilla Project to support the open, innovative web and ensure it continues offering opportunities for everyone. As Chairwoman of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide, collective of employees and volunteers around the world who are building the internet as a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Mitchell is deeply engaged in developing product offerings that promote the mission of empowering individuals. She also guides the overall scope and direction of Mozilla’s mission.

Mitchell is a strong advocate for the open web and open source, and is highly regarded as one of the pioneers who have built the web as it is today. She was instrumental in Netscape’s decision in 1998 to release its source code to the public. This later led to the release of the Firefox browser and the creation of the Mozilla Project as one of the most influential technology organizations in the world, spanning software product development, educational initiatives, and participatory movements. After co-founding the Mozilla Project, Mitchell served as its general manager and CEO from 1999 until January 2008, when the organization’s rapid growth encouraged her to split her responsibilities and add a CEO.

Mitchell is a Board Member for the OpenMRS, the world’s leading open source enterprise electronic medical record system platform, and is an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, Open Agriculture Initiative. She co-chaired the U.S. Department of Commerce Digital Economy Board of Advisors from its inception in March 2016 until August 2017 and serves on the United Nations High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment. Mitchell was co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2015 and a member of the ICANN High Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mitchell received her B.A. in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and her J.D. from Berkeley Law. In her early career, she worked as a Corporate and Intellectual Property Lawyer at Fenwick West LLP and as Associate General Counsel for Sun Microsystems.

TIME Magazine profiled Mitchell in its global list of “100 Most Influential People” under “Scientists and Thinkers”. Bloomberg listed her as one of the “25 Most Influential People on the Web”. She was honored as winner of the Anita Borg Institute’s 2009 Women of Vision Award and received the Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership in 2010. In 2012, Mitchell was inducted into the founding group of the Internet Society’s Hall of Fame. In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She has appeared on NBC “Meet the Press”, BBC “HardTalk”, “CNN Global Office” and "NPR Morning Edition". She has spoken at high-level events like the World Economic Forum, Mobile World Congress, Web Summit, Collision, Singularity University and Bits&Pretzels.

Chris Beard

Chris Beard has been CEO of the Mozilla Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors since 2014.

As CEO, his focus has been on returning the organization to its roots and putting people at the center of everything Mozilla does. In particular, he is focused on ensuring Mozilla and its flagship product, Firefox, remain a beacon of freedom as people’s lives become increasingly intertwined with the Internet across desktop, mobile and new domains.

A lifelong learner, Chris has been a passionate advocate for Open Source his entire career. He has led engineering, product and marketing teams to collaborate on Open Source projects for more than 20 years.

At Mozilla, Chris has led marketing and product management teams to build the Mozilla and Firefox brands, grow the community, and launch core products to hundreds of millions of users globally. As the company’s first Chief Innovation Officer, he led Mozilla Labs to develop new technology that formed the foundation for Mozilla’s mobile, social and identity products. In 2013, he joined Greylock Partners as an Executive-in-Residence and then returned to Mozilla as CEO in 2014.

Prior to Mozilla, Chris held marketing and product roles at Cluster File Systems (acquired by Sun), Hewlett-Packard Company and Linuxcare. He was also co-founder and CEO of The Puffin Group (acquired by Linuxcare), an early Open Source technology startup that was focused on Linux kernel and device driver development.

Chris studied economics and biochemistry at the University of Ottawa and received his MBA in International Business from the University of Edinburgh, where he was also awarded the John McFarlane Prize for Leadership. He is a member of the national board of directors of Make-A-Wish. Born in Canada, Chris now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home with his wife and their two children.

Katharina Borchert

As Mozilla’s Chief Open Innovation Officer, Katharina serves as the senior executive broadly responsible for open innovation, in terms of our community management, participation systems, and non-commercial partnerships with organizations to advance product, technology and policy work.

Katharina has a background that includes more than a decade of new business growth and technological innovation in media and journalism, most recently as CEO at Spiegel Online, the online division of one of Europe’s most influential magazines. Prior to that, Katharina was Editor-in-Chief and CEO at WAZ Media Group, where she completely reimagined the way local and regional journalism could be done, launching a new portal “Der Westen” based heavily upon user participation, integrated social media, and one of the earliest with a focus on location-based data in journalism.

Katharina studied law (with a focus on humanitarian law) and journalism in Hamburg and Lausanne. She previously worked at the UN Center for Human Rights.

Jim Cook

Jim has been the Chief Financial Officer of the Mozilla Corporation since 2005. In that time he has led the worldwide effort to grow the Mozilla team and operational infrastructure from less than 25 employees in Mountain View to a worldwide operation of more than 750 employees in 11 offices on 4 different continents.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Jim held several executive financial and operational roles for several high profile growth startups and has been lucky enough to help build the foundational financial and operational infrastructures of a few brand name, multibillion-dollar companies. As one of Netflix’s six co-founders, Jim built and managed all financial and operational functions from the company’s founding in 1997 until 1999. His public company experience includes Intuit, where he worked closely with the original founders from 1991–1996, including driving several M&As, the company’s 1993 IPO and as Divisional Controller for the $100M Small Business Division (QuickBooks).

Jim currently serves as an advisor to several venture-backed companies, VCs, Silicon Valley Bank’s CFO Advisory Group and as a Director for the Alliance of CEOs.

Jim graduated from the University of Southern California (GO TROJANS!) in 1989, majoring in Business Admin (Finance) and minoring in Biology after deciding not to be an Aerospace Engineer/Space Doctor.

Michael DeAngelo

As Chief People Officer, Michael reports directly into CEO Chris Beard and is responsible for all aspects of HR and Organizational Development at Mozilla Corporation. Michael is a strong people advocate and he helped lead several firsts in the Tech industry including setting public Diversity goals and creating more employee rights for stock options.

Prior to Mozilla, Michael spent 3 and a half years as the Head of People for Pinterest with responsibility for all HR functions and reporting into the CEO. Before Pinterest, Michael spent 4 years at Google leading HR for the Europe/Middle East/Africa region and lived abroad in Zurich, Switzerland. At Google he also led the HR team supporting 10,000 employees for Search, Android, Chrome, Maps, Music and Google Home. Prior to Google, Michael was Vice President of HR at Pepsico leading all people functions for the Quaker Foods global P&L as well as all C-level leadership. Before Pepsi, Michael had a number of HR roles in Organization Development, Compensation, Recruiting and Labor Relations in Microsoft, Merck and AlliedSignal. Michael received his Master's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and lives in San Francisco with his family of 5.

Denelle Dixon

As Chief Operating Officer, Denelle is responsible for the overall operating business, leading the strategic and operational teams to scale Mozilla’s mission impact as a robust open source organization.

Denelle also spearheads Mozilla’s business, policy and legal activities in defense of an open, transparent and commercially sustainable Web and leads the team responsible for negotiating partnerships and revenue relationships that ensure Mozilla’s sustainability. Denelle has been a vocal advocate for encryption, the disclosure of vulnerabilities by governments and greater user choice and control.

Denelle was an outside advisor to Mozilla for several years before joining as Associate General Counsel in 2012. Denelle’s experience prior to joining Mozilla includes working at UK-based private equity firm Terra Firma on brand issues and risk assessment, as well as managing Yahoo!’s legal team advising on products, human rights, antitrust and litigation issues.

Denelle is a qualified lawyer with a B.A. from the University of California, Davis and a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law. She also clerked at the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Jascha believes in two key principles: Find opportunities where no one else is looking; And, never fail the same way twice. It’s a methodology centered around Agile marketing practices and marketing technology. Coupled with a B.A. in Psychology from Whittier College, it’s one that’s served him well professionally and personally.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Jascha most recently served as CMO for BitTorrent, CMO for Mindjet, senior vice president of marketing and customer success at Involver and he previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends. He also has experience at Microsoft and Yahoo!

Outside of work Jascha is a passionate volunteer and mentor with TheLastMile.org. He published Growing Up Fast with Kevin Fann in August 2014. He calls Marin County home with his wife Rebecca, 3 whip-smart children, 1 grey haired hamster, 2 frogs, 6 or 7 fish and one cat that wants to eat them all.

Mark Mayo

As Chief of Product Mark Mayo oversees new and existing product development, working in collaboration with the Emerging Technologies team, and has overall responsibility for the Firefox, Pocket and Emerging Market teams.

His responsibilities include overseeing strategic direction for all products, and the associated services that allow Mozilla to be a major force in the world building a safer, better, open Web. Mark came to Mozilla in 2011 to build Mozilla’s cloud offerings, including the Identity, Sync and Location platforms.

Before joining Mozilla, Mark founded an e-commerce company that pioneered mobile flash sales for the outdoor retail market. Previously, Mark was CTO of cloud computing pioneer Joyent where he stewarded Node.js from idea phase to the world’s fastest growing developer ecosystem. Mark’s other professional passion is systems biology, and he spent five years at the Nobel laureate Michael Smith’s Genome Sequencing Center ensuring the human genome was a public resource. His background is in operating systems and bioinformatics, and he holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Guelph, Canada.

David Slater

David Slater serves in dual roles as Mozilla’s SVP of Operations, overseeing Facilities, IT and Organizational Strategy, as well as Chief of Staff. As Chief of Staff, David facilitates the functioning of the senior executive team, provides executive program management, promotes greater internal communication, increases transparency into organizational accountability, and drives special strategic projects.

David has spent his career in executive roles at Adobe, Leapfrog and start-ups, as well as a previous role as Mozilla’s Vice President of Product Marketing. Before this, as CEO and President of Flixlab he built a small company whose first product became the top photo/video app in the Apple App store across 11 countries. Prior to Flixlab David held product marketing and product management positions at Adobe, Reed Elsevier, Leapfrog and DeVry, Inc.

David was inspired early on by Mozilla’s mission, first using Phoenix in 2002, before it was renamed Firefox and became a fan of the efficiency gains realized with the introduction of tabbed browsing. He has a Masters from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Sean White

Sean White is a high-tech executive, entrepreneur, inventor, and musician who has spent his career leading innovative development of the experiences, systems, and technologies that enable creative expression, connect us to each other, and enhance our understanding of the world around us. He was most recently the founder and CEO of BrightSky Labs, a company he incubated while an EIR at Greylock Partners, and is currently teaching CS377m: HCI Issues in Mixed & Augmented Reality at Stanford University.

Before Greylock Partners, Sean founded and built the Interaction Ecologies Group at Nokia, leading multiple innovative efforts in new mobile forms and experiences in the areas of wearables, Internet of Things, and augmented reality. His previous roles include Chief Technology Officer of NeoCarta Ventures, Vice President of Technology for Lycos, Inc. (acquired by Terra Networks), and Chief Technology Officer of WhoWhere? (acquired by Lycos). Prior to that, Sean was a project lead and member of the research staff at Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation. He holds Advisory Board positions with Perch, and Virtual Workflow, and previously held Advisory Board positions with NY Sun Works, Environmental Defense, Evite, Gravity and OpenVoice.

In addition to 30+ peer reviewed publications and 20+ patents granted or filed, Sean is a 2009 Tech Award Laureate for his work on computer vision-based mobile botanical species identification. He has lectured and taught in the Stanford Program in Human-Computer Interaction and at Columbia University, mentored for Engineers without Borders, and served as facilitator for the Clinton Global Initiative. He held an appointment as a Visiting Scientist at the Smithsonian Institution and served on the Steering Committee for IEEE’s International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR).

Sean earned his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

David Bryant

As a Fellow in our Emerging Technologies organization, David is responsible for providing technical expertise and representation for engineering broadly in all aspects of company decision making.

In the past he has held a variety of roles leading product engineering, marketing, sales enablement and technology licensing businesses at Bell Laboratories, Sun Microsytems and Nokia. He was at Bell Labs during the formative years of Unix, working on signal processing and computer graphics components for running the long distance network and, after divestiture, exploring new business opportunities for AT&T. At Sun he managed product teams responsible for key components of Solaris and Sun’s enterprise Internet software stack, including as part of the Sun/Netscape alliance, as well as for the Java platform in embedded and desktop systems.

In the CTO unit at Nokia, David’s team prototyped emerging hardware and software technologies to accelerate delivery of differentiated mobile computing products. Throughout his career he has been motivated by building Internet and computing technology solutions for real-world problems that matter to people.

David grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Dave Camp

As VP of Engineering, Firefox Dave Camp leads the global team of engineers that build, test, and ship the Firefox family of products and services. He’s responsible for making sure everything is on time and high quality.

Dave joined Mozilla in 2006 to work on Gecko, building networking and security features and was a contributor to the release of Firefox 3. After a short stint at a small startup he came back to join the Firefox Developer Tools team. He led the Developer Tools team through its first major release and the introduction of its mobile inspection tools, including remote debugging and responsive design visualization tools.

Dave became Director of Engineering, Firefox with the task of developing engineers and managers’ capabilities, improving core product quality, and cementing the team’s reputation as a world-class product engineering organization. The team launched Firefox Quantum, incorporating major improvements in speed, stability, security, multitasking and customizability in 2017.

Prior to joining Mozilla Dave worked at Ximian and maintained Nautilus, the central file manager for GNOME, the most popular desktop environment for Linux. He also served on the GNOME Foundation’s board of directors.

In his spare time Dave plays thrash metal guitar for his children at their home in the Pacific Northwest.

Susan Chen

Susan is Mozilla’s Vice President of Business Development. She is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and executing major business deals and partnerships for Mozilla across its product lines including search, commerce, content, communications, mobile and connected devices. She is also in charge of managing the business development team working across the globe.

Susan brings over a decade of experience in sourcing, structuring and negotiating complex deals at global technology companies and startups. Since joining Mozilla in 2011 as Head of Strategic Development, Susan has worked with the Mozilla team to structure and execute multiple complex negotiations and concluded hundreds of millions dollar revenue and partnership deals for Mozilla products and services.

Prior to Mozilla, Susan was the VP of International Market Development at Entertainment Shopping AG, a venture backed startup where she led the market entry strategy and plan for Japan, China, Brazil and Australia. At Yahoo! Inc., Susan was the VP of Business Development for Yahoo! Asia Region where she managed a team that generated over 1 billion dollar in revenues from partnerships. She also led the market development and partner strategies for Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) in Asia and Latin America.

Susan holds an AB in Economics from Cornell University.

Alex Fridman

Alex is currently the Acting VP, Head of Enterprise Information Technology. Prior to that, Alex was the Senior Director, of IT Infrastructure, Engineering and Operations here at Mozilla. Alex is a Senior IT business executive with 20 years of broad based Infrastructure Engineering and Corporate IT experience. He has worked collaboratively with global teams across geographies and across various industries including Tech, Healthcare and Financial Services.

Prior to Mozilla, Alex was the Vice President of Global IT Operations and Strategy at Riverbed and has held other IT Leadership roles at companies including Salesforce.com, Elan Pharmaceuticals, and JPMorgan Chase.

Mary Ellen Muckerman

Mary Ellen is the VP of Brand Engagement, responsible for the brand strategy positioning and narrative of Mozilla and Firefox, as well as the design and production of many of the engagement assets we develop to create relationships with people around the world.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Mary Ellen spent several years at Wolff Olins, a global brand consultancy where, as leader of their San Francisco office and the US strategy team, she worked with clients like Mozilla, the Smithsonian, Target and Google to help them identify what makes them unique and relevant to their audiences and then apply that strategic idea both internally, to guide their culture and capabilities, and externally, to influence their products, services and communications. Mary Ellen also held brand and marketing roles during her 10 years at Target and learned the retail ropes in regional marketing at McDonald’s and store management at The May Company Department Stores.

Mary Ellen holds a B.S. in Business from Miami University and an M.L.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Nick Nguyen

As a product strategist for Mozilla, Nick is responsible for leading strategic product initiatives to advance our mission by building great products that help people take control of and explore the full potential of their online lives, while empowering them with technology, know-how and opportunity to advance the Open Web.

Nick is passionate about building mobile product experiences that make people happy. Mostly recently he served as Sr. Director of Mobile Products at Walmart Labs following the acquisition of Tasty Labs, a mobile and social startup he co-founded and where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Products. At Walmart Labs, he was responsible for launching award-winning Android and iOS apps for Walmart, Sam’s Club and Asda. Prior to this he served as Director of Addons for Mozilla where he was responsible for Firefox ecosystem development and customization features. He has also held a variety of product leadership and software development roles at Yahoo!, Trilogy and Ford Motor Company. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State University.

Eric Rescorla

Eric is CTO of the Firefox team at Mozilla. In this role he leads the long-term technical strategy for Firefox, He also partners with the Engineering and Product organizations to set the short-term technical direction.

Since joining Mozilla in 2013, Eric has been focused on advanced technologies and Mozilla’s technical strategy. Eric was instrumental in the development of WebRTC, which brought voice and video to the browser and worked with Cisco to start OpenH264, which allows Open Source projects to use the world’s most popular video codec for free. He also played a key role in starting Let’s Encrypt, which makes it easy for anyone to run a secure website.

Eric’s background is in communications security, especially Transport Layer Security (TLS), the foundational security protocol for the Web. He is the former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force TLS Working group as well as the editor of the TLS and HTTPS specification. Eric co-designed Datagram Transport Layer Security, and is the author of one of the standard books on TLS.

Eric was on the Internet Architecture board from 2002 to 2008 and in 2007 served on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s Top-to-Bottom Review of the voting systems certified for use in California.

Mark Surman

The web is one of our most valuable public resources — it’s Mark Surman’s job to protect it.

Mark is Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community that does everything from making Firefox to taking stands on issues like privacy and net neutrality. Mark’s main job is to build the movement side of Mozilla, rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organizations and leaders, and growing the open internet movement. Mark’s goal is nothing short of making the health and accessibility of the internet a mainstream issue around the world.

Mark has been doing work like this for 20 years: standing up for open source and putting technology into the hands of everyday people. Mark was the founding Director of telecentre.org, a $26M initiative connecting community technology centers in more than 30 countries. He ran the Commons Group for 10 years, a boutique consulting firm that provided advice and insight on networks, technology and social enterprise to nonprofits and governments around the world. Mark was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship, where he explored how to apply open source approaches to philanthropy in the year before he joined Mozilla.

Mark is a prominent thinker and thought leader — his analysis and opinions have been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, Fast Company and dozens of other publications. A seasoned and charismatic speaker, Mark has delivered keynotes on five continents at major global events as diverse as Mobile World Congress, Personal Democracy Forum, TEDx Kids, World Innovation Summit on Education and the O’Reilly Open Source Summit.

Mark serves as a trusted advisor on the boards of the World Bank Solutions for Youth Employment Consortium, the Toronto Arts Foundation and Peer-to-Peer University. He is a past board member of the Connected Learning Alliance, Telefonica’s Think Big, the Association for Progressive Communications, Wild Canada and rabble.ca.

Mark lives in Toronto with his wife Tonya, founding Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation, and his sons Tristan and Ethan. He holds a BA in the History of Community Media from the University of Toronto.

Ashley Boyd

Ashley leads Mozilla’s work to fuel the open internet movement and mobilize millions to stand up for a free, open web. Mozilla’s mission is ambitious: making the health of the internet a mainstream issue. It is also vital: as centralization, surveillance, exclusion and other online threats proliferate, we need a movement to keep the web a global public resource.

Ashley works with other teams within Mozilla, with ally organizations and with digital citizens around the world through advocacy campaigns and public education initiatives.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Ashley was Vice President & Chief Field Officer for MomsRising, a national grassroots organization in the U.S. As a founding staff member, she was instrumental in building MomsRising into an organization of one million grassroots supporters, 200 partner organizations and over 20 funding partners.

Ashley has over two decades of experience in public interest advocacy, with a specialization in effective uses of technology and public engagement. During her career, she has worked with leading public interest advocacy organizations in the U.S. and India including M&R Strategic Services, the Advocacy Institute, the Self Employed Women’s Association (India) and AmericaSpeaks. She has led multi-state organizing efforts around the issues of health reform, paid family leave, social security reform and the national budget.

Ashley has a Master’s Degree in Rhetoric from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Angela Plohman

Angela Plohman is an experienced nonprofit executive and strategic operations professional with a long track record of building and growing nonprofit organizations and programs. She has spent close to two decades playing key leadership roles in the fields of art, culture and open source technology. She joined Mozilla, one of the world’s most recognizable tech-for-good organizations, in 2012.

As Executive Vice President, Operations, Angela has been critical in evolving the Mozilla Foundation into an advocacy and education organization; more than doubling the size of the Foundation’s staff and revenue; and leading the growth of its operational infrastructure. Angela also co-leads Mozilla’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, and serves as Secretary on the Foundation’s board of directors.

Prior to Mozilla, she was Director of Baltan Laboratories, a laboratory for art and technology based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Angela also served in key roles at the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam, the Blender Foundation in Amsterdam, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology in Montreal, among others. She has written and spoken extensively on art and the importance of research and production spaces for artists and professionals working creatively with technology. Angela holds a B.A. from the University of Winnipeg and an M.A. from Concordia University.

Mozilla Reps Council

The Mozilla Reps Council is composed of volunteer Mozillians who function as official representatives of Mozilla in their region or locale. The council provides the general vision for the Mozilla Reps Program and oversees day-to-day operations globally.